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IT Department Newsletter September to November 2017 Volume 1 | Issue 2 www.vsit.edu.in From the HOD’s Desk I am pleased to share that we have completed an eventful semester. Table of Content: It is indeed a matter of pride that the Department of Information Page 2 Technology has become the hub of many events in this semester. Teacher’s Day Celebration Many eminent personalities and technocrats participated in the Page 3 beyond syllabus activities. I am very much thankful to all the Seminar on data science organizing committee members, faculty members and students of VSIT and others who were involved and Page 4 contributed to make the events a grand Scholar’s Day success. Database cluster has successfully arranged Page 5 Poster making competition and conducted faculty training on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Page 6 Hackathon Event collaboration with CereLab, Programming cluster received a thumping response for Page 7 Hackthon Competition. Software Ujwala Sav Chatpata Corner Engineering and Mathematics cluster Coordinator, IT Dept Page 8 organized event on vedic mathematics to Prize distribution know about amazing mathematics shortcut methods to perform Page 9 complex calculations. CSI-VSIT organized seminar on Data Science, Spoken tutorial training for visit to Info-Comm summit, IT2020. Spoken tutorial is conducted for students faculty members as well as students. OS and Networking and Page 10 Electronics cluster had organized poster competition.The students Photography workshop were motivated to join professional body IEEE along with CSI. To improve the quality of teaching and content the department has Page 11 NET/SET guidance lecture evolved a new practice of AAP Presentation in the presence of series eminent academician as an academic mentor and industry expert as Page 12 an industry mentor. Spoken tutorial training for R&D committee taken initiative to arrange book review, research faculty paper review and technical review to update the knowledge of Page 13-14 faculties about advanced technology. Guest lectures The department strives hard to impart good qualities and skills to our students and faculties through activities and events. Vidyalankar School of Information Technology, Wadala East, Mumbai 37 1 Teacher’s Day Celebration Teachers Day is celebrated on 5th September to honour the faculty members, the teaching and non-teaching staff of our college. The event kicked off at 12:10 pm after the arrival of the Principal- Dr. Rohini Kelkar, Vice Principal- Asif Rampurawala and Vijay Gawde Sir and the event had a great start. The anchors for the event were Muskan Singh ( FYBMS), Varun Mishra (FYBMM), Yogesh. The event was started by our very own singers of VSIT, Sarthak, Smitha Poojary ( FYBMS), Sheetal Sundaray (FYBFM), Vinit Dethe ( TYBSCIT) and Nilay ( TYBSCIT) where the theme was 60 years of Bollywood in 4 chords. The teachers were entertained by Tie and Saree game where the male participants were supposed to wear saree and vice versa. A Skit was enacted by the students of VSIT which was very entertaining. The participants were Ankita, Disha, Pranita, Lokesh, Ayush, Parmeshwar, Arfaad and Yash, “Good teachers are the reasons why ordinary students dream to do extra ordinary things “ Report by : Snehal Tandale Activity by:-Student Council Vidyalankar School of Information Technology, Wadala East, Mumbai 37 2 Seminar on Data Science Data Science seminar was held on 9th September 2017 at 10:30 am. and was organized by CSI-VSIT Coordinator Ujwala Sav. It was attended by a large number of students as well as faculty members. The faculty members who attended this seminar are : Payal Shah, Sanjeela Sagar, Madhavi Amondkar and Vice Principal Asif Rampurawala . Our guest speaker Mr. Mayuresh Shilotri is an IIT Madras graduate and is the founder of GreyAtom and DataGiri. CSI faculty in-charge Payal Shah introduced the Guest Speaker .Mr. Mayuresh Shilotri gave detailed information about being a data science professional and to cope with industry needs and problems . He mentioned the importance of Maths as it will fetch them jobs and allow them to solve problems more easily. This was followed by Q & A Sesssion . The Session turned out to be very interactive . He concluded his talks by mentioning few websites important for the students. CSI Deputy student coordinator Ms. Priyanka Panchal proposed a Vote of thanks. The seminar helped in gaining knowledge in new area and various career options. Students’ feedback received was excellent. CSI students congratulated CSI-VSIT Convener Ujwala Sav and faculty- in- charge Payal Shah and Sanjeela Sagar along with the CSI Core committee to organise such an interesting and valuable Data Science Seminar. Vidyalankar School of Information Technology, Wadala East, Mumbai 37 3 “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein Scholar’s day VSIT had organized a Scholars Day Event for all FY and SY BSc IT/ BMS/ BAF/ BBI/ BFM/ BMM students of the college on 18th and 19th September 2017 from 10:00 am onwards. Three subject toppers were selected for each subject in each course. Three Division toppers were selected from each division. These students were felicitated with certificates by the Principal Dr. Rohini Kelkar. In each class Rohini madam guided the students by motivating them to enhance the healthy competition and also the importance of this event. The occasion was graced by the Vice-Principals, Prof. Asif Rampurawala and Prof. Vijay Gawde , along with the HOD’s of all the courses. Report by : Hrishikesh T and Aasha V. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” Vidyalankar School of Information Technology, Wadala East, Mumbai 37 4 Poster making competition On behalf of Department Of Information Technology (Software Engineering and Mathematics Cluster), Beyond syllabus activity titled “Poster Making Competition” was organized on 22nd September 2017 from 11:30 am to 1 pm. The venue was Y-block Seminar Hall and the judge was Mr. Mandar Bhave, Assistant Professor and coordinator of IT and CS department at D.G. Ruparel College. There were about 10 groups who submitted their posters on different Mathematicians. The mathematician included were Aryabhatta , Archimedie , James Garfield, Pythagoras and many more. Students paricipated actively in this competition. Among these 10 groups, Adjunct faculty Mr. Makrand Deshpande selected the best five posters and these were then displayed on 22nd September 2017 in Y block. The selected 5 posters were later judged by Mr.Mandar Bhave. Vidyalankar School of Information Technology, Wadala East, Mumbai 37 5 “Creativity is Intelligence having Fun.” –Albert Einstein t Hackathon Event VSIT Programming Cluster had organized an intercollegiate “Hackathon Event” on 29th September 2017 between 10:00 am – 04:00 pm in X-001 In this activity, students were told to register in groups at the registration desk by paying the registration fees of Rs. 200/- per group. Then the students were allocated a group number and sat in X-001 according to their group numbers. Seventeen groups participated in this event. Then they were asked to select any one topic from the list provided from the sheet provided. These sheets also contained small information about the corresponding topic. The participants were to make website or a mobile application on that topic. After the stipulated time the applications created by the students were judged by VSIT professors Prof. Shajil Kumar P A and Prof. Dr. Sarika Chouhan and out of senenteen groups, the best five were selected. Later on these applications were judged by Prof. Vijay T. Patil a professor from Vidyalankar Polytechnic who is also In-charge Head of Department Computer Vidyalankar School of Information Technology, Wadala East, Mumbai 37 6 Engineering. He judged the applications on the various criteria and selected the best three applications and were awarded with certificates and cash prizes . All the participants were given participation certificate to motivate. The motto of this activity was to hunt the creativity of the students and also to nurture it . “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.” Chatpata Corner Chatpata Corner activity was conducted by the Food and Beverage Committee of VSIT for all the members of Vidyalankar family on 13th October 2017 at the Cafeteria The goal and scope of this activity was to organize the theme-based Food Festivals and events. As everyone loves to have chatpata chat items, the theme for this activity was to make different chat items available at cafeteria to all members of Vidyalankar family. Three chat items were served- Pani Puri, Ragda Puri and Dahi puri. These items were chosen to serve as they are not available on a regular basis in the canteen menu. All faculty members and students enjoyed this activity. Vidyalankar School of Information Technology, Wadala East, Mumbai 37 7 “If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world”. - J.R.R. Tolkien Prize Distribution of Youth Festival Prize distribution was held for the participants of Youth festival, Shanivar manch and Talen hunt of VSIT by the Student Council 2017-18. The anchor for the event was Ayush Singh (SYBMM) started the event with a huge round of applause for all the participants present there. The event started with the prize distribution of Shanivar Manch . Ms Amraja Shivkar gave away the prizes for the winners and was followed by the other faculty members present : Sindhu Krishnan, Surajkumar D, and Shreyas Bondre. S After that the prizes for Youth participation, Talent hunt, Youth winners were given by student council members of VSIT i.e., Vaishnavi Venugopal (TYBMS- HR) , Hemant Joshi (TYBSc-IT) and Fahad Malim (TYBFM).